{"id":23520,"date":"2023-10-19T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=23520"},"modified":"2023-10-19T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:43:13","slug":"jobs-for-the-boys-continue-under-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/jobs-for-the-boys-continue-under-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"JOBS FOR THE BOYS CONTINUE UNDER LABOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on democracy Senator Larissa Waters<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReports today that a senior staffer and ex-Labor Senator has been gifted a role as Australia\u2019s next senior trade and investment commissioner and consul-general in San Francisco, stink, to put it bluntly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Australian people voted for an end to this kind of \u2018jobs for the boys\u2019 nonsense. They expect better from the Albanese Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMinister Farrell\u2019s decision to install an ex-Labor colleague and senior staffer in a plum industry role, instead of the woman selected through a rigorous recruitment process, simply doesn\u2019t pass the pub test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens have long called for an enforceable Code of Conduct for all politicians and senior staff, to put an end to the revolving door that sees so many of them gifted highly-paid, senior roles in industry moments of leaving parliamentary offices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on democracy Senator Larissa Waters said: \u201cReports today that a senior staffer and ex-Labor Senator has been gifted a role as Australia\u2019s next senior trade and investment commissioner and consul-general in San Francisco, stink, to put it bluntly. \u201cThe Australian people voted for an end to this kind &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/jobs-for-the-boys-continue-under-labor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JOBS FOR THE BOYS CONTINUE UNDER LABOR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23521,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions\/23521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}